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“Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.” – George Eliot

“Even in Heaven they don’t sing all the time.” – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Work’s no use unless you believe in it.” – John Galsworthy

“Today is only one day in all of the days that will ever be. What will happen in all of the other days that ever can come depends on what you do today.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Not all dirt is pay-dirt.” — Christopher Isherwood

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“When the going gets tough, the weak get screwed”………. youngest brother of Confucius

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Carmen Berra, Yogi’s wife asked: “Yogi, you are from St. Louis, we live in New Jersey, and you played ball in New York. If you go before I do, where would you like me to have you buried?” Yogi’s answer: “Surprise me.”

I’ve often used the Lily Tomlin quote…glad to know where it’s from. Assuming she didn’t “borrow” it, of course.

A propos of Oscar Wilde’s quote above, I used to tell my Foundations of Biology students that the point at which I was SURE I knew the most was when I’d finished my freshman year college Zoology class. Three entire quarters mastering the names, habits, etc. of the animal kingdom….I felt STUFFED with knowledge.

And I was, of course….but it turned out that from that point on, as I continued to learn I could see that I was like Newton…playing with a few pebbles on the beach, with the vast ocean of knowledge stretching off into the distance.

Keeping that perspective helped me relate to my students in a healthier way than some of my former profs…..